{"id":916,"date":"2005-01-06T21:14:43","date_gmt":"2005-01-06T21:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=916"},"modified":"2005-01-06T21:14:43","modified_gmt":"2005-01-06T21:14:43","slug":"bill_gates_ces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=916","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates CES Meltdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s interesting to compare this simple legacy media <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madison.com\/tct\/business\/\/index.php?ntid=23565&#038;ntpid=0\">press release framed as an article<\/a> with a very different perspective [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lessig.org\/blog\/archives\/002379.shtml\">Lessig<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2005\/01\/05\/bill_gates_free_cult.html\">Boing Boing<\/a>] on Gates Las Vegas comments regarding our fair use rights (he essentially sides with the hollywood cartels). Slashdot <a href=\"http:\/\/games.slashdot.org\/games\/05\/01\/06\/1337228.shtml?tid=109&#038;tid=211\">discussion<\/a>.  Bottom line &#8211; don&#8217;t do <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/\">Windows<\/a>.<br \/>\nA bit more research (a few seconds on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%22If+people+had+understood+how+patents+would+be+granted+when+most+of+today%27s+ideas+were+invented+and+had+taken+out+patents%2C+the+industry+would+be+at+a+complete+standstill+today%22&#038;sourceid=mozilla-search&#038;start=0&#038;start=0&#038;ie=utf-8&#038;oe=utf-8&#038;client=firefox-a&#038;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official\">google<\/a>) and we have Bill Gates in 1991:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today&#8217;s ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Thanks to Jeff Keltner for that pointer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s interesting to compare this simple legacy media press release framed as an article with a very different perspective [Lessig | Boing Boing] on Gates Las Vegas comments regarding our fair use rights (he essentially sides with the hollywood cartels). Slashdot discussion. Bottom line &#8211; don&#8217;t do Windows. A bit more research (a few seconds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}